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THE.,BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
EEBRUAKY 2H, 1B4<>
NCWC Social Action Director
Appears on University oi Georgia
Religion-in-Life Week Program
(Special lo The Bulletin)
ATHENS, Ga.—The eighth an
nual Religion-in-Life Week was
lield on the campus of the Univer
sity of Georgia from January 27
through January 20th, with the
Newman Club at the University
taking an active part in the pro
gram and the ltev. George G.
Higgins, assistant director o f
the Department of Social Action
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, and lecturer in
Economics at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, in Washing
ton. D. C., was one of the guest
speakers.
On the evening of Sunday, Jan
uary 27, Father Higgins spoke at
a meeting of the Newman Club
of the University; on January 28.
lie conducted a seminar for stu
dents of the College of Business
Administration, discussing "Labor
and Management Relations”; that
evening he conducted a forum for
members of the Kappa Delta
sorority; the next morning, a
seminar for the faculty and stu
dents of the Law College on
"Ethical Value in Labor and Man
agement Relations"; and spoke on
"The New Economic Order—
Economic Democracy”, at a con
vocation in the Pound Auditorium,
and was the speaker on a program
at the University Chape! in the
evening.
On January, Father Higgins
conducted a seminar on "Lan
guage in World Citizenship”, and
participated in a forum discussion
on “Focusing Our Thought and
Activity”, at the closing mass
meeting held in the chapel that
evening.
The theme of "Religion-in-Life
Week" at the University this
year was "Averting Disaster—in
the Home, in Heliigon and F.duca-
IlKV. GEORGE G. HIGGINS,
lion, in Labor and Management,
and in World Citizenship.’’
Guest speaker on the program
with Father Higgins were Rabbi
Harry Kssrig, of B'nai B’rith Ilillel
Foundation, New York City; the
Rev. David J. Evans, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Ameri-
cus, Ga.; the Rev. G. Ray Jordan,
professor of preaching at Emory
University, Atlanta; John E. Mc-
Caw, director of Student Work for
the Christian Church, Indianap
olis; Jack Richard McMicliael,
executive secretary of the Meth
odist Federation for Social Ser
vice, New York City, and the Rev.
John W. Melton, of the First
Presbyterian Church, Baton
Rouge, La.
Father Hubert Sweeney, C. P., Extolls the
Catholic Press in Talk on Radio Program
Broadcast by Station WTOC, Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Speaking
on the Savannah Catholic Pro
gram. which was broadcast over
Radio Station WTOC here on
Sunday, February 17, the Rev.
Hubert Sweeney. C. P.. noted
Passionist missionary, delivered
an inspiring talk on “The Catho
lic Press”, and his remarks on
that subject are quoted as fol
lows:
Since the ever memorable day
Hien Pontius Pilate asked Jesus
,’hrlst the question; “What is
’ru'h”?—His Church, the Roman
’atholic Church, has consistently
upended and extended herself in
m offer to teach men to know all
ruth.
For 1900 years she ha-, thrown
ill her resources into an all-con-
mmng ambition to pry (.pen the
reasure chests of knowledge and
o give this knowledge to all men.
.ike her Divine Mastei. she has
net opposition .and she has suf-
ered from the victims of a
ligoted envious, or ignorant mind,
ind to them she has frequently
lad to cry out . . “Having ears
mu hear not, and having eyes,
mu see not the things that are
>f God.” Consistently ignoring
injusl and false charges, as well
is unholy and cruet persecutions.
;he has given generously of every
neans at her disposal in cncourag-
ng and supporting in every field
if endeavor, the search for Truth
rer sons and daughters have cut
laths through physical and moral
uid scientific jungles, and they
laye set their sails on every chart-
■red and unchartered ocean and
■iver and stream in quest of the
I'ruth.
Her children’s names are to be
round among the leaders in every
field of moral and intellectual
search for freedom and truth—-
the arts‘and sciences have been
L'qd and made strong and pre
served by her. Her Monks and
Nuns, with artistic hands and
In'iyiant minds, preserved for
posterity, long before the print
ing press, the precious gems of
truth gathered by research, and
safeguarded even at the cost of
life itself.
She justly points . with pride
to the long and glorious lists of
her children who died for their
Catholic Faith. She is as proud
of her heroic dead, who laid down
tfheir lives that tni" art and true
Science might advance, and be
better known.
Today, as when her son Peter
knocked at the gates of*lhe Ro
man Empire, the Roman Catholic
cintfcb, a.. smNfflnc, .jw?,.
Court Charlotte of
Catholic Daughters
Initiates New Members
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLOTTE, N. C. — Court
Charlotte, No. 1199, Catholic
Daughters of America, held its
annual reception for new members
on January 27. in the assembly
room of the O'Donoghue School.
Mrs. Jeannette O’Donoghue, grand
regent of the court, presided, and
the meeting was opened with
prayer by the Right Rev. Msgr.
Arthur R. Freeman. P. A., chap
lain of the court.
The candidates for members,
Mrs. E. H. Bertram, Misses Mar
garet Lambert, Gladys Gluck,
Rose Marie Milner, Madeline Me-
Ginis. Jacqueline Arbor, and Rita
Baumgarten, were prepared for
reception in the court by Miss
Nellie Williams, Ihe monitor.
Following the impressive initia
tion ceremonial, Mrs. Marian
Hummel presented Monsignor
Freeman, who introduced two
guests, the Rev. John A. Flynn, a
Maryknoll Missionary, who gave
an instructive talk on Catholic Ac
tion, and the Rev. Tiitlothy Sulli
van, C.SS.R.. who spoke on Unity
and Charity.
After the business meeting
there was a social session at
which tea was served by Mrs.
Florence Soule and members of
her committee.
Court Charlotte has sponsored
for (lie last ten years a most in
structive study club, under the
direction of Monsignor Freeman.
The club meets once a month and
is presently engaged in a study of
the Holy Gospels.
Pastor of St. Peter’s
Church, Charlotte
beautiful figure, proclaiming the
rights of all men lo know the
truth, and flinging into the sneer
ing features and curled lips of
Communism, and its adherents,
her unchanging challenge “Only
the Truth Can Make You Free”.
Today, as the World gasps in
painful agony from the wounds
of war . thinking men pay
tribute to llie Church and her
stand for truth. The great Jew
ish scientist Einstein wrote: “1
never had any special interest in
the Church before now. but I now
feel a great admiration and af
fection for Her, because Ihe
Church alone has the courage and
persistence to stand for intellec
tual truth and moral freedom."
In the realms of philosophy and
theology, he has led men by her
pure reason to sources of truth,
speaking with an authority. She
alone dares to proclaim. She has
placed Her Sainthood on those
She deemed worthy, and She has
condemned those She has marked
as sinners. Here in the United
States, Her voice, almost alone,
rings out. decrying the destructive
divorce devotees who advocate an
easy Reno-bound or Miami-Beach
ed. or the more recent Savannah-
brushed form of annihilating the
sanctity and stability of marriage.
The Catholic Church, ever an
cient. yet ever new. lakes advan
tage of very new means of teach
ing men the truth. Our age is
an age of radio and press. These
highly developed means of ex
pression are among the most
powerful mediums oi' teaching in
the world, and the Catholic
Church uses both.
The month of February is
known in the Catholic World as
Catholic Press Month, and wher
ever man walks, the Catholic
Church is urging, pleading, beg
ging men to read Catholic litera
ture.
The Catholic Church, boasting
of a press service touching every
race and every language in the
world, can cry out .'Know me and
search my ways and see if there
be in me the way of iniquity."
Her press releases, no matter
what form they take, have never
degraded man or woman. Never
has the Catholic Press been wil
fully guilty of an unjust charge
against anyone’s good name or
reputation. In spite of the oppo
sition of self-styled doctors and
professors, whose little minds have
been blinded by Ihe fire-cracker
of their accomplishments, (which
they alone mistook for a mental
atomic bomb) the Catholic Church
doe* enjoy the gra^i^ude, appre
ciation. and admiration of real
intellectual giants, Catholic and
non-Catholie, who admit the
Church’s great contriulion to all
truth.
The Catholic Press is the means
of dispensing Ihe truths of God.
It is in the Catholic Press I hat
men may learn perfectly to know
Him Who alone could say: “I am
the truth. . . I am the life”.
Catholics have no justification of
ignorance regarding Truth. If
they are ignorant, they have fail
ed, not the Church.
Here in the great Stale of
Georgia. The Bulletin, published
in Augusta by the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia,
offers every Catholic the means
of knowing the Truth of God and
the Action of His, Church, not
only in Georgia, but in the world.
It is the solemn sacred duty of
every Catholic to be able to give
a reason for the failh that is in
him. To my Catholic listeners,
therefore. I repeat the exhortation
addressed lo Augustine, “Take up
and read."
To my non-Catholic brethren,
may 1 presume to offer a free
subscription to our Georgia Catho
lic newspaper. If any of our non-
Catholie friends would like to
know what the Catholics of Geor
gia are doing and reading, all they
have to do is to ask that The Bul
letin be sent to them, making
the request direct to the office
of The Bulletin in Augusta, or
through any Knight of Columbus
in Savannah.
The Rev. Maurice McDonnell. O.
S. B,. Pastor of St. Peter’s Church,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA
VISITS BELMONT ABBEY
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. S. — The Most
Rev. Michael J. O'Doherty. Arch
bishop of Manila, and spiritual
leader of the 17,000,000 Catholics
in the Philippines, addressed the
faculty and student body of Bel
mont Abbey College in Uie col
lege auditorium on January 19.
speaking of his experiences dur
ing the fifty months of Japanese
occupation of the Philippines, un
der which nienty-two priests of
his Archdiocese were put to
death and the ArchbislkjP him
self held virtually a prisoner by
the invaders of the islands.
Archbishop O'Doherty said that
when General Douglas MacArthur
withdrew from Manila late in De
cember. 1941, taking with him all
of the American and Filipino
I loops in the city, (he people of
Manila expected his return with
in a week; when he did not re
turn, they lioped he would make
his appearance during the .suc
ceeding week aifd thus kept up
their courage throughout the
long and terrible months of oc
cupation.
Upon General MacArthur's re
turn to the Philippines lie sug
gested that Archbishop O'Doherty
visit the United States to regain
bis health which had been im
paired during the dilys of occupa
tion. Ilis Excellency has been
spending some time in Nortli Car
olina at Ihe rectory of Hie Sacred
Heart Church in Plriehurst.
BOY SCOUT DIRECTOR
VISITS CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C— Kenneth
E. Cook, national director of
Catholic Boy Scouts, was a recent
visitor lo Charleston where he met
with a group of local Catholic
laymen.
Mr. Cook, who lias been engag
ed in Boy Scout Work since 1928,
was accompanied on his visit to
Charleston by Frank Dix. deputy
regional director of Region (>'. His
program here was arranged for by
ilie Rev. Richard C. Madden,
Scout chaplain for the Diocese of
Charleston.
William J. Kavanagh
Dies in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA. — William J.
Kavanagh, father of four priests,
died at his home here on Febru
ary 12, following an extended ill
ness.
One of Mr. Kavanagli's sons in
the priesthood is the Rev. Josepii
W. Kavanagh, of St Matthew's
Church, Consltdhoeken, Pa., who
was for some years secretary to
Ihe Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
D. D., J. U\ D.. Bishop of Savan-
nah-Allanta, another is the Rev.
Francis Xavier Kavanagh, O. S, C.
O., of the Monastery of Our Lady
of Ihe Holy Ghost, Conyers, Ga.
The other sons in the priesthood
are the Rev, William A Kavanagh
and the Rev. John Kavanagh, both
of Philadelphia.
FRED W. STACICLEY
DIES IN FLORENCE
FLORENCE, S. C. — Funeral
services for Fred W. Staekley, re
tired merchant and farmer, wlm
died January 21, were held from
St. Anthony’s Church, the Rev.
William A. Tobin officiating.
Mr. Slackiey was born in Char
leston, the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. John Jacob Staekley. He
spent the greater part of his life
in Florence where he had been
successful as a merchant, farmer
and real estate dealer.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Bertha Davis Staekley, two
sons, three daughters and four
grandchildren.
ROBERT E. SHEEHAN
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON. S. C,—Funeral
services for Robert Emmett Shee
han, who died January 23, Were
held from Our Lady of Mercy
Church.
Born in Charleston, in 1879, Mr.
Sheehan was a son of Thomas Jos
eph Sheehan and Mrs. Alicia Eliz
abeth Laffan Sheehan.
Mr. Sheehan is survived by
three sisters, Sister Mary An
thony, of Uie Sacred Heart Con
vent, Belmont. N. C., Miss Lil
lian Sheehan arid,,lVli$s Margaret
Sheehan, both of Charleston; a
brother, Thomas J. Sheehan, two
nephews, and a cousin, John P.
Laffan, all of Charleston.
ST. PETER’S CHURCH. CHARLOTTE—St. Peter’s Church, Char
mile, N C., is a charge of the Benedictine Fathers. The Rev. Maurice
McDonnell. O. S. B., is pastor, with Ihe Rev. Philip Tierney, O. S. 11.,
.assistant pastor. lIt , ...»
GEORGE A. LEONARD
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for George A. Leonard,
who died on January 21, were
held from St. Patrick’s Church.
Mr. Leonard was a native of
Charleston, a son of the late
James Leonard, of Ireland, and
Mrs. Bridget Carroll Leonard, of
Charleston.
He is survived by three broth
ers, John L. Leonard, William J.
Leonard, county treasurer, and
Edward A. Leonard, and three
Sisters, Mrs. Anne L. McAllan,
Mrs. T. M. O’Brien and Mrs. John
J. Kennedy, all of Charleston.
JEREMIAH A. KEANE
DIES IN SAVANNAH
Savannah, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Jeremiah A. Keane, U. S.
customs sampler here for more
than twenty-five years, were held
February 8 from the Church of
the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Mr. Keane was a veteran of
World War 1 and also served with
Ihe Jasper Greens, of the National
Guard of Georgia, on the Mexican
border.
Mr. Keane is survived by bis
wife, Mrs. Agnes V. Keane, and a
sister, Miss Cecelia Keane.
MICHAEL J. CALLAHAN
FUNERAL IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Michael Jo
seph Callahan, retired shoe mer
chant of this city, died at his home
on the Washington road on Febru
ary 9. funeral services being held
from (lie Sacred Heart Church, the
Rev. J. E. O’Donohoe, S. J., offici
ating.
Mr. Callahan had lived in Au
gusta all of his life, and was one
of the group who founded Patrick
Walsh Council. No. (577. Knights of
Columbus, here in 1902.
Husband of tlie late Mrs. Mar
garet Hughes Callahan, Mr. Cal
lahan is survived by three daugh
ters. Miss Mary E. Callahan and
Miss Helen Callahan, of Augusta,
and Miss Margaret Callahan, of
Washington. D. C.; by four sons,
Arthur A. Callahan and Vincent
Callahan. Augusta; Esmond II.
Callahan, Washington. D. C.. and
John D. Callahan, Sanford. Fla.,
and one grandson, Daniel J. Cal
lahan.
MISS HELEN IIESLIN
DIES IN BROOKLYN
CHARLESTON. S. C. — News
lias been icccived here of the
dcalli in Brooklyn, of Miss Helen
E.- lies tin; -loimorly of ’Charleston.